Week 3.

[trustharder]

WEEK 3 Another week has passed; two more Survivors are gone. Pearl and Caren both had someone to fight for, someone worth killing for; perhaps it's for the best to hope that somehow they've found peace despite not being able to collect on the Kingmaker's incentive. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. That doesn't mean the night passed easily, though - it seems another piece of your personal puzzle may have fallen into place while you slept... Following that spiral staircase up to the second floor will reveal something strange; those stairs definitely lead far higher than you remember, up to a previously inaccessible third floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; consider it your reward for a job well done. SURVIVORS REMAINING: 23

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[OOC: Welcome to week two of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins and the coming week's activity check; don't forget to check in to this week's activity check and submit your memory regains!

The text and calling posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]

Comments

[garudynamic]

[After everyone talks out the trial and dreams, Yosuke clears his throat to get everyone's attention]

So, I was talking to Bruce last night about this, but-

-we've all pretty much guessed that the Pearl we saw probably wasn't real. So that means the Kingmaker might... be able to copy any of us. Or even people we know from our homes.

[The implications aren't said. He doesn't want to SAY 'Pearl and Caren might have died for a lie'. It's too cruel]

So... it might be a good idea to not trust anything he offers us after this. Even if it's right there and we can see it. Okay?

[cherryblooded]

...Ah.

[Well, now he's doubly glad he didn't act on that motive. It probably shows that he's ashamed to have even considered it, now.

Just keep thinking that your world is fine, Cherryblod. It'll get you through eventually.]

You're right. He's not reliable for any reason. Certainly not for anything worth killing twenty people over.

[garudynamic]

If he's lying about this, it's even more likely he's lying about our worlds too.

[cherryblooded]

He is. He has to be.

[There's just no way that they're all really gone.]

[garudynamic]

[He clasps Cherry on the shoulder. There's nothing else useful he could say]

[amygdalae]

Not that he was exactly ever trustworthy in the first place, but after seeing what happened back down there... it's hard to deny the possibility.

[As terrible as it is, it probably needs to be said.

And Bruce has been thinking of a few other things with that train of thought... but its best to not voice them out at this time.]

[garudynamic]

It's just a theory. We just... really don't know enough.

[amygdalae]

We barely have anything to work with, still.

[It is rather frustrating.]

At this point, its one of the more plausible ideas with what we know. It's something to keep in mind, at the very least.

[garudynamic]

It's all just shooting in the dark right now.

[ratingspoint]

Do you have any idea what that actually was down there, then? And Zagi before her, too! Not to doubt you or anything, but they were definitely something.

I'd claim special effects of some sort, but they're better at the whole "killing people" thing than any special effects I've ever seen.

[garudynamic]

Not yet... but honestly, with it being glass and the bright lights who even knows what we saw. Either way he has some way of making us see something that's impossible, so the point still stands.

[ratingspoint]

...Personally, I'm going to decide to not have an existential crisis today? And the only way to do that is to either ignore the situation entirely or assume that it actually is possible somehow.

I'll get back to you on which I end up liking best.

[garudynamic]

[He kinda pouts at Mettaton, but he can't really argue his point against that either]

[prismbloom]

When I spoke with Sigrun, she suggested a shapeshifter.

[penduli]

[ ...sorry, Yosuke, he's here to burst a bubble. ]

I actually asked the Kingmaker about the incentive he gave us last week. He said it wouldn't been a very effective promise if he couldn't deliver on it. That could follow your copy theory, but... [ BUT... ]

...when I asked him how he'd manage it, he mentioned that he couldn't tell me the exact method, but that "time is an obstacle that can be overcome." [ He's reading off his phone, actually--the conversation is new enough for this. ] He alluded to the fact most of us are from different years all together to support that, too.

[ he ain't sayin' the kingmaker's a time traveler but

look. we've had vampires and mermaids already, let's suspend our disbelief a little longer. ]

He could be lying, but I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. There's weirder things that exist in my own world than whatever he might be fibbing with.

[garudynamic]

That doesn't explain the other Pearl though. Why would he get another Pearl from another time or something JUST to kill Caren? She didn't seem the type to stab someone like that!

[penduli]

We've only been here a week or... two, maybe three. Can you say you know any of us well-enough to assume we wouldn't be the type to do something? How well did you know Miss Pearl?

[garudynamic]

[He winces. True, who know what The Kingmaker might have promised another Pearl. He barely knew her at all.

He pulls back from the table, crossing his arms and tucking his feet up onto the chair- looking like a hedgehog curling into a ball of defensive sulking]

I don't know. But sue me for looking for an explanation outside what that bastard is feeding us. I'm... not just going to accept this.

[amygdalae]

[Honestly, at this point Bruce doesn't know how much he can take the Kingmaker's words as truth. Is he only telling them what they wish to hear, or the actual truth?]

Why wouldn't he be willing to divulge the method? I'd think it'd make him more believable if he had.

[penduli]

Maybe it's too complicated? Or maybe it's as easy as clicking our heels together and wishing we were somewhere, and he doesn't want us to know. [ Who knows. ] I couldn't say, but... I agree it'd make him more believable.

[amygdalae]

A lot of what he says is left for ourselves to interpret, from what I understand so far.

[And that interpretation can cause a lot of... miscommunication. Which certainly isn't helpful.]

[isafraid]

[Ah...

There's barely a reason that would have motivated Speedwagon to do the deed Caren did, but that bothers him to a degree he hadn't even considered.

Truth will always be hidden in these instances, it was up to them to find it.]

It's likely, and possible altogether since we've seen that sort of thing happen with our very eyes. [as strange as it is to admit.] We had Pearl with us - or, what's left of her - when that other Pearl attacked Caren.

[garudynamic]

I'm not saying outright this is the case. Just... we should keep it in mind.

[isafraid]

[Speedwagon shakes his head as he speaks.] It's already madness.... I suppose keeping up on whatever options we've got might help if we're stuck here for the long run.

...Things around here could always get stranger, right?

[notjustawriter]

Who the hell knows what that was-- couldn't have been a zombie, if what we thought was Pearl's body wasn't real, but the question is what?

A robot, a hologram, smoke and mirrors; we don't have anything to go by.